157 Quotes by Mary Renault

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

Money buts many things... The best of which is freedom.

Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

When we serve the great, they are our destiny.

Each man in his life honors, and imitates as well as he can, that god to whose choir he belonged, while he is uncorrupted in his first incarnation here; and in the fashion he has thus learned, he bears himself to his beloved as well as to the rest. So, then, each chooses from among the beautiful a love conforming to his kind, and then, as if his chosen were his god, he sets him up and robes him for worship.